Halloween duvet sets. WTF?

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Saw in Home Bargains today. Took no notice of sizes or prices.

This is worse than Xmas bedding and cushions.

I think having themed bedding is pointless and besides you want a Xmas free room to chill out

I often think that Wall-E is a documentary too

@merrymaryquitecontrary

mote money than sense, but at least other people will be able to get some bits they might have been able to buy at retail prices.

i wish I could be that emotionally detached from stuff!

Don’t buy it then, not worth getting your (non themed) knickers in a twist about it is it?

@SummerSplashing ooops....bad maths 😬😂😱
Yes you are very correct 😂😂😂

Exactly this.
See also ‘hygge’ - IMO a very clever marketing ploy to sell blankets, candles and throws.

But Halloween comes every year, so you could get a decade out of them if you have kids the right ages.

I am not a fan of plastic tat but some printed bedding doesn’t seem that offensive. Could be cut up and used for costumes eventually.

I don't normally do seasonal themed stuff, but I do have a Halloween bedding set (which gets used all year) which has black cats on it. Because I own (am owned by?) several black cats.

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🤣🤣🤣. I think I love you. This has made my morning.

I love it.

I don't have halloween bedding but I have some decs that are already out. You only use them for a short time year after year so they're not wasteful either.

If it makes people happy, there's nothing wrong with that.

Which is great, because people who would love to decorate, but can't afford even primark prices, get an opportunity to.

I buy a lot of Christmas decorations, bedding, kitchen etc. I wait for local appeals for families and then donate. I'm changing my quilt size, do have five Winter/Christmas bed sets to donate. Any tatty ones go to a local gull rescue.
Halloween for us starts in October (but autumn starts Sep 1st). Christmas decorating anytime in December. People call B&M/Home bargains etc Chav while saying it's a shame that the high street is dying off. Us Chavs are keeping retail and lots of jobs going.

Exactly!

I wouldn't buy Christmas or Halloween duvet sets. I have a pair of Christmas pjs, but I wear them all year round (it's cotton tshirt and long trousers) and a Christmas jumper

But they wouldn't make and sell stuff if people didn't buy it🤷‍♀️

As long as you reuse stuff I don’t see a problem. I buy new Halloween decorations when I see something fun, but I still use decorations that I bought over 25 years ago.

On a very slightly related note I'm more offended by "teddy bear" bedding sets and thick fleecy ones. Sheets as well! I feel sweaty just looking at them....🤣🤣and how on earth do you get the whole set in the washing machine?!

You don't realise that Halloween has only just become a 'thing' in the UK.

Except it has been for lots of people for years and posters just like to complain about things that other people do.

Give it a few weeks and there'll be the annual complaints of how Christmas is so commercialised, people spend too much and starts earlier every year ad nauseum.

Which has been a complaint for my entire lifespan of almost 50 years. And before.

Dickens wrote in 1843 in a Christmas Carol about the commercialisation of Christmas and people wasting 'money on frivolities'.

Somehow, some people seem to think there's an astonishing new problematic social phenomenon that they've just realised.

Every. Year.

And we’ll have Halloween on Christmas…

I have Halloween decorations up all year long. I have a stack of three light up pumpkins in my bathroom along with a witches boot tea light holder. Various signs with slogans such as ‘witches way’ up amongst other little trinkets. Strangely my three children all have a natural Halloween appreciation too! It must be genetic 😆🎃💀

@Mynewsofa errr Halloween has not just become a "thing" in the UK. Most of the traditions (that people frequently blame America for) are Scottish (and Irish).

Some people are just joyless.

Questioning the need for seasonal bedding/decor is like asking why you would want a Louis Vuitton neverfull when you can use an Aldi bag for life.

Some people just like nice things, if you don’t then that’s fine, you do you but leave us alone in our nice cosy autumnal homes!

I just finished my latest Lego build and am browsing wistfully. Maybe seasonal Lego is what I need

@BabaYetu this is a good one.

You are my "people" We (DDs and I) actually made our own Besoms and DH dutifully pretends not to notice them and the other "decorations" we "forget to take down".
We are loving the newer bits and bobs coming out each year

I got some lovely Halloween bedding for my DCs bedroom the other day and I can guarantee you it will be on their beds for most of the year because it’s their absolute favourite. One DC had a Halloween birthday party in summer

I’ve got that 😂

I prefer Halloween to Christmas

Err. that was the point of my post.

It said:

"You don't realise Halloween has just become a 'thing' in the UK... except it has been for lots of people for years and posters just like to complain about things other people do"